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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and…

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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn.…
The mechanism of primary emotions does not describe the full range of emotional behaviors. They are, to be sure, the basic mechanism.…
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain -…
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those…
A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.
How can you have this reference point, this stability, that is required to maintain the continuity of selves day after day?
Scott Fitzgerald said famously that 'he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for.' But he also forgot that…
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture -…
The autobiographical self is built on the basis of past memories and memories of the plans that we have made; it's the…
We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that is automatically…
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling…
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think.

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But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. — Thomas Jefferson
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